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<p>The <a href="http://conceptweblog.wordpress.com/"><b>Concept Web Alliance</b></a> is an organization founded to promote the semantically rich publication and dissemination of life science data and knowledge.</p>
<p>The basic underlying units of this knowledge will be 'triples' - concept-relationship-concept - represented using the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-primer/"><b>Resource Description Framework (RDF)</b></a> specification of the W3C. Technologies that are built around RDF such as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triplestore">RDF Triplestores</a>, <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/cooluris/">URIs</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDF_query_language">Query Languages</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Ontology_Language">OWL</a> will have immediate importance to this and other CWA Working Groups including 2.3 (Storage and Maintenance), 2.4 (Unique and Persistent ID) and 2.9 (Triple Browser and Reasoning). Whilst RDF Triples will form the core of CWA recommendations, data and knowledge have structural complexities that cannot be represented with triples alone.</p>
<p>This CWA Working Group is responsible for recommending the higher order structures amongst triples and the vocabularies for describing these structures. The resulting triple model will allow features such as domain context for a triple (e.g. gene expression under certain conditions), metadata for triples (e.g. authorship).</p>
CWA working group 2.6: Nanopublications
Andrew Gibson
cwa
triplestore
rdf